RFC 2278

"IANA Charset Registration Procedures", January 1998

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2278.txt
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Status:

INFORMATIONAL (was published as BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

Obsoleted by:

RFC 2978

Authors:

N. Freed
J. Postel

Stream:

[Legacy]

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Abstract

MIME [RFC-2045, RFC-2046, RFC-2047, RFC-2184] and various other modern Internet protocols are capable of using many different charsets. This in turn means that the ability to label different charsets is essential. This registration procedure exists solely to associate a specific name or names with a given charset and to give an indication of whether or not a given charset can be used in MIME text objects. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.